He defended the insurrection and the President’s hush-money payments. He has been and will always be a Trump loyalist. He’ll put the President’s interests over the interests of the nation and should not be confirmed.
Laurie Hertzel
@lhertzel.bsky.social
On substack: https://lauriehertzel.substack.com. Also, book reader, book critic, author "News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist" and "Ghosts of Fourth Street," and teacher at MFA program at UGA-Athens.
Pretty clear Todd Blanche is just another yes-man who will sign off on the President’s worst ideas. Why would we trust someone who demonstrates he can’t stand up for what’s right?
UPDATE: I just received responsive documents pursuant to my FOIA request www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...
NEW: ICE Confiscates Children's Letters at Dilley Concentration Camp. I've filed a FOIA Request to Get Them
ProPublica recently published heart-wrenching letters from children at Dilley. ICE then raided the dormitories to confiscate and destroy those letters. I've filed a Freedom of Information Act Request.
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
muellershewrote.com
Have you ever noticed that as your dog ages, it becomes more human? open.substack.com/pub/lauriehe...
90 percent human, 10 percent dog
As dogs age, they become more like us, don't you think?
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Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead: Violence, humour and sharp social criticism
Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead: Violence, humour and sharp social criticism
Final novel in two-time Pulitzer winner’s Harlem Trilogy traces evolution of its ageing crook characters and of New York itself
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Colson Whitehead is a freaking genius. And his Harlem Trilogy is so complex--funny, exciting, violent, gory, wise, insightful and historically on the button. Here's my review for the @irishtimes.com in which I try not to gush. I think it'll be online soon but here it is in lovely print.
The story of two appalling doctors. Trust your gut. Get out of there. open.substack.com/pub/lauriehe...
Always leave.
Another story from long ago. I remembered it after reading a post on Bluesky about how a doctor had diagnosed a woman with something dire and then scoffed at her when she got upset.
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NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Last week OMB Director Vought lied to my face when he said they don’t use politics in funding decisions. Now we have proof. In court, the Trump admin admits they based decisions on who the states voted for President. That’s a disgusting abuse of power.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoBreaking News: Federal officials acknowledged in court documents that they canceled grants to states that didn’t vote for President Trump in 2024. nyti.ms/4gRd5Kb
a friendly bit of culinary advice that you all already know: after chopping up jalapenos do not touch your eye. learn from my stupidity, people.
Felt really good about drowning that japanese beetle that was eating my roses until i saw that it had two white dots on his butt.
I hope the vapid mommybloggers who hitched their collective wagons to the obviously bogus MAHA movement are feeling real bad about themselves today.
@johnd26.bsky.social · 2w agoIT is worse futurism.com/science-ener... Now read www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/w...
Let's link to the Minnesota newspaper, shall we? Seems the least we can do. www.startribune.com/live-vance-b...
Live: Judge gives Vance Boelter two life sentences plus 40 years for lawmaker attacks
Hortman family members and the Hoffmans gathered at the hearing, where lawmakers delivered emotional remarks.
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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2w agoBREAKING: The man who assassinated Melissa & Mark Hortman, and John & Yvette Hoffman, has been sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in prison. www.cnn.com/2026/07/23/u...
I love tv reviews that make me laugh. so, that is, what i mean by that, is i love @patrickfreyne.bsky.social 's tv reviews.
Patrick Freyne@patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 2w agoMy column www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
If not for a banana and a very kind stranger, I might have died. open.substack.com/pub/lauriehe...
I could have died
Many years ago, a bike ride from Duluth to LaCrosse turned out to be one of the best--and stupidest--things I'd ever done. If not for the kindness of strangers....and a banana...
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So we have spent $38 billion on a failed war in Iran and they want $75 billion more? And we don’t have healthcare? Why are we doing this? And why would anyone give them more money?
Just curious, all of you who are blaming journalists for not finding out about Mitch McConnell, instead of blaming the government for not revealing the truth, how many of you subscribe to newspapers? #mitchmcconnell
#### Please repost,lets get this hashtag moving. #### #MitchMcconnellisDeadProveMeWrong
who is investigating the disappearance of #MitchMcConnell?
There is absolutely no reason for this.
More comment than question rly@mn-snow-show.bsky.social · 3w agoRidiculous, infuriating.
I read two powerful but sad books back to back and then realized I needed an antidote. I found it in a 30-year-old memoir by an Irish poet. open.substack.com/pub/lauriehe...
An antidote to sadness
Reading two sad books back to back sent me in search of something that would make me smile.
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ICE can't tell the suspect from the neighbor, but Susan Collins handed them another $70 billion to keep guessing.
This is a BIG deal
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 3w agoBREAKING EXCLUSIVE: In a stunning admission, the FBI just confirmed to me the existence of training videos instructing FBI analysts on what to redact in the Epstein Files. I’ll show you the letter and discuss the massive implications in one hour. Link below: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...